Peter Blauner’s Casino Moon was an unexpected hit with me last year. Richly created characters all down-on-their-luck in loser-town Atlantic City. I enjoyed it from start to finish and thought I had discovered a new voice. I tried twice to read his Lourdes Robles series but I couldn’t get into it. Everything that popped in Casino Moon felt lank there: the characters, the setting, the mystery, etc. Slipping Into Darkness was the one I really wanted. No less than Stephen King hailed it as one of the best books he’d read […]
Here’s to the Ones that We Lost on the Way
Slipping Into Darkness by Peter Blauner